Oedipus#
Summary#
Nietzsche invokes Oedipus as a symbol of the fearless questioner who confronts difficult truths. In the opening of Beyond Good and Evil, Oedipus appears alongside the Sphinx as a metaphor for the philosophical confrontation with the problem of truth’s value, asking who interrogates whom. Later, Oedipus returns as an emblem of the courageous thinker who faces nature with unflinching eyes, seeking to translate humanity back to its fundamental text rather than accepting flattering metaphysical illusions.